Countries Ranked by Population to "Intellectual" Nobel Prize Ratio

This investigates whether there was a correlation between number of intellectual
Nobel Prizes won by a country and the average IQ
score of that country. For a proper comparison, the population of each country
was divided by the number of Nobel Prizes it had gotten. The only Nobel Prizes
excluded from the count were the Peace Prizes. Strictly speaking, the correlation
was calculated on the ranks of the countries on the IQ and Nobel Prize
lists. The Spearman Rank Order Correlation (r) came out to be 0.258046 with
a p of 0.2462680. The correlation is not significant (at p<0.05). And if
it were, it would only explain 6.7% (r squared) of the Nobel Prize winning rank. See below for a chart of the nobel prizes per country and a graph showing the lack of correlation with IQ rank.

Most of the population data (in thousands) are from the World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000 (for 1999) Mahwah, New Jersey: PRIMEDIA Reference, 1999.